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There are moments of quiet comedy and a strange grace in this Danish film about four teachers who wonder if life is really better when you’re drunk.

Courtesy Of Samuel Goldwyn Films I DRINK, THEREFORE I AM Mikkelsen finds an intellectual justification for binge drinking in Vinterbergs dark comedy Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched director-cowriter Thomas Vinterbergs Another Round, Denmarks official submission to the Best International Feature Film ...

The First Great Film of 2021 Attempts to Drink Away the Male Midlife Crisis Charles Bramesco, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail While I try to spend as little time as possible thinking about Kevin Spacey these days, there is one aspect of American Beauty that I often think back on. Suburban sad-sack Lester Burnham feels trapped in his humdrum life, until a crush on his daughter’s hot friend (a different time, 1999!) prompts the reality-shattering realization that he can reenergize himself wi...

Dir. Thomas Vinterberg — 4 Stars Mads Mikkelsen stars as Martin in "Another Round." In its original language, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest feature is called “Druk” — translated literally, “Binge Drinking.” The official English title is a bit more poetic: “Another Round.” As Denmark’s submission to the 2021 Academy Awards for Best International Feature, this unique “drinking drama” has quickly gathered acclaim and awards b...

The Marthas Vineyard Times Here’s to a drink in ‘Another Round’ “Another Round,” a comedy on drinking behavior, opens on Friday, Jan. 8, at the M.V. Film Center, and continues online. Considering the distressing state of the world, it’s an entertaining look at how four friends imbibe alcoholic drinks and talk about it. Mads Mikkelsen, whose career was launched with “Casino Royale” in 2006, and who won 2012 Cannes Best Actor for his role in â�...

The 10 Best International Movies of 2020 By Paste Movies  |  December 28, 2020  |  1:27pm The Golden Globes’ racist disqualification of filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s American-made Minari from its Best Picture categories will not be the last debacle from the embarrassing awards body—one that shouldn’t be given the time of day by anyone that enjoys movies nor screen time on a major network—but it does at least provide a jumping-off point to highlight the best movies of the year that ...

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM: 4 STARS It’s hard not to watch “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the vibrant adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same name, now streaming on Netflix, without feeling a sense of loss. It’s Chadwick Boseman’s last performance and the life he brings to the role of ambitious trumpet player Levee acts as a poignant reminder of a career cut tragically short. Set in the roaring 1920’s Chicago, Viola Davis plays the titular character, a real-life musical t...

Linguistic scholars will not be happy with the English translation for the title of this Danish film. When it was released in Denmark, it was called “Druk,” a Danish term for binge drinking. American audiences are getting it as “Another Round,” a happier-sounding, more celebratory version of the term. There are funny moments, but this is also a dark drama. Suggesting that a relationship with alcohol is an everyday kind of thing in Denmark, and that it starts early on, the fi...

Updated: 5:52 PM CST December 14, 2020 ST. LOUIS — The ageless question still stands tall. Does drinking alcohol make you a more fun person to be around? Its a theory that four middle-aged friends put to the test in Thomas Vinterbergs "Another Round," an uproarious and quite joyous celebration of life and all it has to offer. Martin (Mads Mikkelson, working in top gear here) has a beautiful wife and two kids, but feels hollow enough to ask his wife if he has become boring to h...

Save this story for later. The latest film from the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round,” marks the second occasion on which he has teamed up with his countryman Mads Mikkelsen. In “The Hunt” (2012), Mikkelsen played a kindergarten teacher who is wrongly accused of being a pedophile. In the new movie, he plays Martin, a high-school history teacher who is accused, correctly, of being an alcoholic. Note that both protagonists (it’s hard to call them heroes) ...